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The Middle East's democracy deficit in comparative perspective / Marsha Pripstein Posusney -- Coercive institutions and coercive leaders / Eva Bellin -- Political crisis and restabilization: Iraq, Libya, Syria and Tunisia / Jason Brownlee -- Contestation without democracy: elite fragmentation in Iran / Arang Keshavarzian -- Multiparty elections in Arab world : election rules and opposition responses / Marsha Pripstein Posusney -- Party systems and regime formation: Turkish exceptionalism in comparative perspective / Michele Penner Angrist -- Opposition and economic crises in Jordan and Morocco / Ellen Lust-Okar -- Princes, parliaments, and the prospects for democracy in the Gulf / Michael Herb -- Too much civil society, too little politics? Egypt and other liberalizing Arab regimes / Vickie Langohr -- The outlook for authoritarians / Michele Penner Angrist